http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceThis wide-ranging blog will examine a variety of IT topic areas touching on hardware maintenance in some way, attempting to generate discussion and foster interaction among readers. We'll take a break from the hard news and opinion pieces and try to look at some bigger concepts that inform and assist in your day-to-day IT work. en-usSat, 12 May 2018 18:06:01 +0000ITtoolbox RSS Generator 1.0hourly1http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/waste-not-want-not-58825?rss=1A guest post by Christiana Johnson, a marketer and innovator at TERiX Computer Service?   Approximately 300 million computers and 1 billion cell phones are put into production every year, which means that a similar quantity is put out of commi...WasteNotWantNot58825@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceTue, 04 Feb 2014 16:34:53 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/avoiding-the-freshman-15-of-virtualization-57032?rss=1They say that people get fatter in their first year of college. As Wikipedia explains, ?The freshman 15 is an expression commonly used in the United States that refers to an amount (somewhat arbitrarily set at 15 pounds) of weight often gained during...virtualizationAvoidingtheFreshman15ofVirtualization57032@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceMon, 12 Aug 2013 17:13:08 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/emcworld-2013-vipr-ontap-and-the-hidden-burden-of-softwaredefined-storage-56076?rss=1EMC caused a small ruckus last week at EMCworld 2013 by saying flat out that they stopped being a hardware company years ago. Years ago? Years ago. Certainly their engineering staff supports the statement ? out of 12,000 engineers on staff, only 500 ...cloudEMCworld2013VIPRONTAPandthehiddenburdenofsoftwaredefinedstorage56076@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceMon, 13 May 2013 16:46:01 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/datacenter-equilibrium-beware-the-deceptive-goal-of-standing-still-55654?rss=1Flux is a constant; managing assets is an ongoing task, rather than a single destination. Yet too often projects are launched out of a desire to make operations more stable and predictable, with only a vague impression of what success will actually l...hardwareDatacenterEquilibriumbewarethedeceptivegoalofstandingstill55654@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceTue, 09 Apr 2013 16:44:45 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/five-legacy-considerations-55514?rss=1 Cast a wide net when researching costs. Especially when the decision is systemic ? that is, you?re deciding whether or not to retain or upgrade a whole range of individual components ? it?s grossly inaccurate to simply compare the price tag of new...FiveLegacyConsiderations55514@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceFri, 29 Mar 2013 14:21:01 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/hp-lovecraft-presents-your-network-54801?rss=1Network IT is practically an entirely different breed and an entirely different market to sell into than the rest of IT hardware, and in order to be relevant there you can?t talk about it the same way you talk about mainframes or servers or storage. ...hardwareHPLovecraftPresentsYourNetwork54801@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceWed, 30 Jan 2013 12:07:56 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/oraclersquos-biggest-cloud-question-ndash-why-53413?rss=1There?s a nice article by Doug Henschen in the Oct 15 InformationWeek, ?Key Questions Face Cloud Convert Oracle?. It goes into a better job than most of explaining the various tiers and markets for Oracle?s big splash entry into the Cloud and XaaS ma...OraclersquosBiggestCloudQuestionndashWhy53413@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceMon, 22 Oct 2012 17:19:06 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/jc-penney-joins-oracle-on-the-bleeding-edge-of-retail-techhellipwait-what-52772?rss=1I happened across this editor?s choice blog post today on The Motley Fool: Oracle for Back-to-School? How is it ? what universe are we living in ? when JC Penney is the company leapfrogging virtually every other realspace retailer ? even Apple? Is t...JCPenneyjoinsOracleonthebleedingedgeofretailtechhellipWaitwhat52772@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceWed, 22 Aug 2012 15:56:05 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/another-take-on-the-hp-court-win-on-itanium-52614?rss=1Kudos to Charlie Demerjian at semiaccurate.com for an analysis of the ruling on Itanium that goes further than the ?ha ha, Oracle keeps losing in court!? stuff everyone else seems to be posting up. I had some thoughts on it that I was finding difficu...AnothertakeontheHPcourtwinonItanium52614@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceThu, 02 Aug 2012 16:04:07 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/sweating-hardware-in-the-private-cloud-51393?rss=1The Register UK has posted up the results and color commentary of its recent Private Cloud Survey (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/18/el_reg_survey_results_private_cloud/) and it?s well worth a read even if your business or you personally have n...SweatingHardwareinthePrivateCloud51393@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceFri, 18 May 2012 11:27:51 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/when-colo-attacks-the-downside-of-a-multitenant-existence-51145?rss=1In the technology industry, colocation has been a hot topic as of late; as a result of its being in the spotlight, both good and bad news can be found. It has been around in some form for a very long time, arguably back to the early days of multi-ten...WhenColoattacksThedownsideofamultitenantexistence51145@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceMon, 23 Apr 2012 14:12:42 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/pue-is-about-efficiencyso-why-is-it-used-to-measure-costs-and-performance-51008?rss=1Derick Van Heerden. a senior IT architect in IBM?s Integrated Technology Services division, posted an excellent article in Data Center Knowledge?s Industry Perspectives on Friday entitled ?PUE is about Efficiency, Not Performance or Cost? that could ...PUEDCiEIBMEfficiencyCostProductivityPerformancebenchmarks51008@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceMon, 09 Apr 2012 10:58:49 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/high-oem-overhead-a-common-and-costly-maintenance-mistake-post-5-of-5-50854?rss=1OEM support is not a ?mistake?, per se, and for many companies it really is the best fit solution. For businesses that don?t fit a one-size-fits-all maintenance plan, however, money is being wasted in paying for maintenance coverage to an OEM rather ...HighOEMoverheadAcommonandcostlymaintenancemistakepost5of550854@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceThu, 22 Mar 2012 10:55:41 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/mismatched-service-levels-a-common-and-costly-maintenance-mistake-post-4-of-5-50654?rss=1Service Level Agreement (SLA) mismatches may be the result of the policies of your specific maintenance provider, unlike the the issues of incomplete decommissioning or poor asset visibility, which can exist at any company regardless of their choice ...MismatchedServiceLevelsAcommonandcostlymaintenancemistakePost4of550654@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceTue, 06 Mar 2012 16:17:18 GMThttp://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenance/poor-asset-management-visibility-a-common-and-costly-maintenance-mistake-post-3-of-5-50581?rss=1Many businesses ? most, it may be safe to say ? are overpaying for hardware maintenance. And up to a point, this is true regardless of the specific provider they?re relying on for their service. In the last post we talked about the first common sou...PoorAssetManagementVisibilityAcommonandcostlymaintenancemistakePost3of550581@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/hardware-maintenanceWed, 29 Feb 2012 17:00:01 GMT